Tbf this is a legit thing. Old cartoons and TV shows that get one DVD release and then drop off all services. Like, I went to watch Beserk (1993) and the only place I could was a VHS rip on YouTube.
I remember watching the entire Kirby: Right Back At Ya show on old YouTube back in the day when I was a kid, tons of shows had full episodes uploaded then.
I’ve gotten like 3-4 letters from my ISP when I was younger and had no idea what a VPN was. Each time no fine and no cut service. Law is different in each country and I know EU ones are more strict but your most basic VPN will make it impossible for your ISP to know what you’re downloading or seeding.
Each time one pirating site gets shut down its replacement is created a day later or you just use a different site.
Yeah, people using honeypot/virus den like Pirate bay telling others that they can't pirate...
But millenials are funny in this way. They often think that because they were able to click on the most mainstream site in their times (and still use it despite it being basicaly pc AIDS) they are some pro hackers. While majority of them didnt even hear about stuff like HV.
lol. lmao, even. If you're not pirating like a lemming even TPB is fine. There's way better alternatives but the website matters less than knowing when you need specialized/trusted communities.
If you knew enough, you would know that honeypot operations on current TPB are pretty basic stuff in Europe because due to nature of torrents it is basicaly free win.
Yeah yeah, get VPN, take more precautions... Sure. But why risk it? Why waste time? There are hundreds of better alternatives so nobody who has some clue about piracy would go to sites like pirate bay. There Is literally no reason to go there unles you try to test limits of your antivirus.
Sure there might be some reliable sources there (dont know, lastly used it as a kid like every other millenial) but i can guarantee that majority of users dont consider things like that. And thats what I am laughing at. "Milenial pirates". People who went there because they learned about it from 9gag and just because they were able to download utorrent (lol) and click on literally the most mainstream site of their time think they have some deep knowledge, better than later gens. "Pirates" who havent even heard about HV and their PC skill ceiling is getting surfshark VPN. But sure shit on younger gen just because you were so special in your younger days that you were able to transfer files from folder "crack" to game file (or when feeling like super hacker you were also required to click on "keygen")...
Yeah, but what bugs me the most is that's the 3rd time this day I see some weird comments like "it's amazing how genZ is bad with [completely normal thing genZ isn't bad with]" or the famous "damn zoomers can't do [random thing genZ do]", like I understand it's reddit (a famous place for losers) about 4chan (famous place for the trash of humanity) and it's certainly poor ragebait, but wtf, I thought boomers were the local punching-ball, but now millennials and gen X are acting like them too, it's like this meme were you're laughing at someone and then do the exact same thing
qBittorrent, and I use WatchSoMuch to source the magnets or torrent files. Most reliable site, and it basically is an imdb database of stuff they dont even list there.
Stremio has finally given me a set and forget solution I can distribute to the family, but getting sick of fielding questions on missing/incorrect audio tracks. Getting close to revisiting Plex so I can curate it once more.
that requires someone else to own that media and to share it, i've been unable to find plenty of media i've looked for on torrent sites just because it's old and no one cares about it
There is no reason to even torrent it, there are so many anime streaming sites that let you watch for free. Just use an adblocker so you don't get popups
Or my new favorite is when some other nerd on reddit has already catalogued the entire run and special features of a show and made a nice google drive folder for everyone.
Dont remember names but shout-out to the guy who put together every season and special of every Top Gear spanning 40 years.
I quoted the date off the top of my head, sue me. And yeah I found it, because it's one of the most popular anime of all time. How many series and one-offs are just gone because nobody thought to archive them? How many thousands of hours of shows and movies exist only as forgotten DVD box sets sitting in attics or dumps?
How many series and one-offs are just gone because nobody thought to archive them? How many thousands of hours of shows and movies exist only as forgotten DVD box sets sitting in attics or dumps?
Quite a few, but likely none you've heard of or care about. If nobody ever cared to make copy, it's either so old that everyone who enjoyed it was dead long before the internet came about (i.e., it was lost to time), or it was so unpopular in its day that only a couple of copies actually exist, and it's impossible to find them.
If I make a $50 budget film with my phone camera, burn it to DVD, and sell it to a random homeless person, that might become lost media, but media that has been advertised and commercially released is not lost.
Yeah don't go on a tangent and change topic. I'm not the one who picked one of the most readily available titles online then talk like it's a lost media just because you can't figure out how to find anything outside of Youtube. Someone already made a website to try and document list of lost media since the 2012, which combined all the older projects from 2000s and 1990s. Idk why you're talking like it's some obscure knowledge lmao.
Movies and shows that got a DVD release typically are not lost media. Lost media tends to happen with videos taken down off sites like YouTube or unpopular VHS/Betamax releases of media.
r/lostmedia and the LostMediaWiki users would despise you for pointing out they’re just terribly inept pirates and that the content they’re searching for is, indeed, not lost by any definition.
I would say the hierarchy of how 'lost' media is goes something like this:
You can still legitimately purchase it in its original form or better. (This is most media, like your example, and even much older examples.)
You can find it on YouTube or other legit sites in good quality.
You can find it on YouTube or other legit sites in bad quality or on 'normal' torrent sites in good quality. (This or higher is where 99% of even somewhat well-known media is.)
You can find it on Russian torrent sites or sussy sites like TPB.
You can find it in 'random' places that are still publicly accessible like open directories.
You can't find it at all unless you know someone who has a copy, or know how to access a copy (e.g. have a link and password) that isn't publicly accessible. (This is what one might consider lost media for practical purposes.)
You can't find it no matter what, because all remaining copies of this piece of media have been lost or destroyed. (This is truly lost media, and media in this tier is bound to be obscure.)
As others have pointed out, Berserk is a bizarre example because you can watch it everywhere. You can even buy physical BluRay discs on Amazon. If you're not willing to pay, YouTube is generally not a good bet, and you'll have to go to tier 3.
I'll second this. Do you have any idea what I had to go through just to fucking find Today's Special, a live action show I loved as a kid? I finally got a torrent of it a couple of months ago and it's just old VHS rips. I've been looking for it ever since torrents became a thing and I have been sailing the high seas since the days of Napster. I'm talking decades of looking for this show that was popular at the time and had 7 seasons. And I just found it in February.
anon's will complain that people complain about lost media, but will feelsman.jpg when you point out that we only exist for as long as anyone remember us and the last time anyone ever mentions our name with the context to who we were is our final death.
If all you have is a memory of a thing, it dies with you. If it remains in this world, you will be reflected and represented by it when you die. We all want to be immortal in some way, we all want a piece of us to remain in this world and to have mattered, be it children, our work, our deeds, our lessons. Knowing that media you partook in will, maybe, one day be seen by someone like you and matter to them, matters to us all.
Current kisscartoon is just a copycat and I assume a malware infested site after the original kissanime, kissmanga, kisscartoon got taken down, iirc only the kisscomics remained up and then rebranded.
Make sure you use adblock when you watch it. When I try watching it on mobile it redirects me to some weird scam website every other time i click on a button.
Yes but you can't do playlists anymore. You used to be able to watch episodes back to back without manually clicking through them. The playlist and movies are now behind a login.
I've been using anime kai. Idk about playlists but it does autoplay and has intro/outro skips. Also has subtitles for dubs which most places don't seem to. I think they're voice to text though instead of genuine subtitles. Was watching Made in Abyss yesterday and I swear it gave Reg a different name every time it was said XD
Yea I've switched to anime Kai too. Probably one of the best sites I've found for streaming. I've been seeing voice to text subs now. It really butchers names lol
They are so quick to upload everything which made it extra funny when the newest episoded of One Punch Man took days to show up.
I wanted to see at least one after all the talk of it being the worse thing ever released and it sucked so hard that the site that uploaded the ''The Red Power Ranger gets iseakied'' minutes after being released on Cruncyroll couldn't be arsed to do it.
If it doesn't have an app you can download in the app store anyone under 25 knows fuck all about what to do. Kids now don't even know how to use a mouse and keyboard.
Grew up with a piracy oriented father, had any game i wanted on the wii, ds and computer, as well as any movie burned no a dvd. Learned how to do it myself watching him. Born in 2003. I'm sure a lot of people my age had the same experience
A lot less than you think. You're an edge case and far from the norm. Granted most fall in between the extremes, but people in your generation by and large only know how to interact with tech through apps. It's a growing problem in schools.
I think it's mostly a later Gen z problem tbh, I'm also 2003 and have a lot of friends between 02-05 and we're all pretty technologically literale, but you go down a few more years and you get people who are just like "oh it's not on Netflix? I'm not watching it" or my biggest pet peeve calling Usb-C "the new iPhone charger"
Stellina. I made this post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/s/G5vQRhJM9A
Turkish and Italian dubs are found but they're low quality. Other dubs are completely missing tho, even the English one. I've been searching this for a long time.
Around 70% to 90% of all films recorded during the silent film era are lost media with no surviving copies known. This includes notable films like Lon Chaney's London After Midnight (1927), Laurel & Hardy's Hats off (1927), Saved from the Titanic
(1912, just a month after it sunk), early Alfred Hitchcock silent films like The Mountain Eagle (1926), early Academy Award winning films like The Way of All Flesh (1927) and The Patriot (1928), etc.
A bunch of important early film that aren't entirely lost are incomplete. Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) is still missing 5% of it.
Cleopatra (1917) only has some surviving fragments. The uncut version of Freaks (1932) would be incredible.
Those are really lost media, because not only they are not available to the general public, they arw also not available to the current right owner and to the original broadcaster. Many "lost media" instead are still somewhere in the archives of the networks that aired them, but they just haven't interest in distributing them anymoreÂ
Searched far and wide almost for a year to no avail.
> Released in 2008 as digital-only next to a CD of the same song from a different Vocalist (Sana K.).
> Only was briefly available in high quality Wav on viBirth download, a now defunct website as all other websites that used to sell it.
> Never available in stores, only ghost listings from how it used to be sold. Never available on Seven Seas (even passed Interview for private tracker Sites just to look).
Had to install a driver for a webcam recently. Cam was from 2001, driver from 2006. Windows didn't know it, but apparently you couldn't find it on the internet. Even resorted to sketchy driver helper software, which could at least name it correctly, but installation was paywalled.
Got it off the original driver disk out of sheer spite and wrote a long but precise manual for the person buying it. They were amazed I was able tp figure out the process.
There's this old mexican narco movies from the late 80's/early 90s that had a torture scene of someone's teeth being drilled out. Watched it when I was like 7 on Univision. I hadn't been able to find that movie.
It's personal, really, lost media in this sense is more about how much it meant to you individually. The objectivity is the general sense of these media pieces overall being discarded, regardless if they hold weight en masse or not.
Nobody cares about ThunderCats, but I was hyped when I found the intro on YouTube one day.
This is why I insisted on owning all of Teen Titans and Hey Arnold physically because I rewatch them so frequently. Lo and behold, neither are ever available on any of the streaming services the family is subscribed to.
Toon Heads from Cartoon Network. History, old cartoons, a great DVD style narration. I loved it. Apparently though, much of it is considered "lost media."
Brokedownbad@reddit
Tbf this is a legit thing. Old cartoons and TV shows that get one DVD release and then drop off all services. Like, I went to watch Beserk (1993) and the only place I could was a VHS rip on YouTube.
quantumfall9@reddit
I remember watching the entire Kirby: Right Back At Ya show on old YouTube back in the day when I was a kid, tons of shows had full episodes uploaded then.
ehnemehnemuh@reddit
You can just torrent it from pirate bay
yumstheman@reddit
This generation has never had to learn the dark arts.
I_cut_my_own_jib@reddit
Like downloading limewire pro with limewire 😎
raider1v11@reddit
How do they get content that's not available? Or they dont notice since there's so much?
-FriON@reddit
They cry like a fucking cucks: "Oh no, 28 days later is not available on any streaming service, how can I watch this, this is lost media"
Judah_Earl@reddit
They pay an eBay scalper $70 for the Blu-ray.
tentaclehentaigod@reddit
I'm gonna be honest, im genz 21 yo and i don't know what a blu ray is, and i realy wanna watch 28 days later
SaveTheSpycrabs@reddit
ai is made for people like you. ask it
gamefreak101100@reddit
google the magical 4 letters fmhy
amidoes@reddit
The problem is war on piracy is tightening and soon even downloading lost media will get you a fine in the mail
ItsSuperDefective@reddit
How the fuck are you downloading lost media? If it is possible to download, then it isn't lost.
RolfIsSonOfShepnard@reddit
I’ve gotten like 3-4 letters from my ISP when I was younger and had no idea what a VPN was. Each time no fine and no cut service. Law is different in each country and I know EU ones are more strict but your most basic VPN will make it impossible for your ISP to know what you’re downloading or seeding.
Each time one pirating site gets shut down its replacement is created a day later or you just use a different site.
GuerillaGandhi@reddit
Eh, no... This is way you're a streaming-cuck who pays for 9 different streaming services.
ItsSuperDefective@reddit
Seeing the definition of "lost media" change from "no known copies are in existence" to "not on a streaming service" has been surreal.
yumstheman@reddit
They just don’t bro. They eat whatever slop Netflix decides to put in the content trough and that’s it.
SoupaMayo@reddit
We do just like you, this statement is bs
DeepQueen@reddit
Usually somebody uploads it from their personal collection or it gets stolen from a website and given to the bay
DarkScorpion48@reddit
It’s amazing how bad Gen Z are with pirating. It took me two minutes to find Beserk.
SoupaMayo@reddit
Poor ragebait. It's the first time I heard that zoomers can't pirate things
Apprehensive-Toe4160@reddit
Yeah, people using honeypot/virus den like Pirate bay telling others that they can't pirate...
But millenials are funny in this way. They often think that because they were able to click on the most mainstream site in their times (and still use it despite it being basicaly pc AIDS) they are some pro hackers. While majority of them didnt even hear about stuff like HV.
Call_Me_Pete@reddit
lol. lmao, even. If you're not pirating like a lemming even TPB is fine. There's way better alternatives but the website matters less than knowing when you need specialized/trusted communities.
Apprehensive-Toe4160@reddit
So in short: you know nothing about piracy.
Call_Me_Pete@reddit
Care to expand on that? I know enough about piracy to know that for plenty of content, TPB is fine, so long as the pirate is taking precautions.
SoupaMayo@reddit
I think the other guy's point is that you're not really pirating anything if all you do is click on a link
Call_Me_Pete@reddit
That doesn’t really follow when talking about TPB as if if’s some scary danger only fools would use
SoupaMayo@reddit
Can't argue with that
Apprehensive-Toe4160@reddit
If you knew enough, you would know that honeypot operations on current TPB are pretty basic stuff in Europe because due to nature of torrents it is basicaly free win.
Yeah yeah, get VPN, take more precautions... Sure. But why risk it? Why waste time? There are hundreds of better alternatives so nobody who has some clue about piracy would go to sites like pirate bay. There Is literally no reason to go there unles you try to test limits of your antivirus.
Sure there might be some reliable sources there (dont know, lastly used it as a kid like every other millenial) but i can guarantee that majority of users dont consider things like that. And thats what I am laughing at. "Milenial pirates". People who went there because they learned about it from 9gag and just because they were able to download utorrent (lol) and click on literally the most mainstream site of their time think they have some deep knowledge, better than later gens. "Pirates" who havent even heard about HV and their PC skill ceiling is getting surfshark VPN. But sure shit on younger gen just because you were so special in your younger days that you were able to transfer files from folder "crack" to game file (or when feeling like super hacker you were also required to click on "keygen")...
SoupaMayo@reddit
Yeah, but what bugs me the most is that's the 3rd time this day I see some weird comments like "it's amazing how genZ is bad with [completely normal thing genZ isn't bad with]" or the famous "damn zoomers can't do [random thing genZ do]", like I understand it's reddit (a famous place for losers) about 4chan (famous place for the trash of humanity) and it's certainly poor ragebait, but wtf, I thought boomers were the local punching-ball, but now millennials and gen X are acting like them too, it's like this meme were you're laughing at someone and then do the exact same thing
C_umputer@reddit
Exactly, I don't even remember the last time I couldn't find something on piracy sites.
RodjaJP@reddit
Except they do, when among the crowd of a TikTok about an old show there is a minority trying to look for the source material
TheHellbilly@reddit
The old magick shall not be discussed with the children of new.
Brokedownbad@reddit
Torrenting is my last resort go-to because torrent software sucks
a-sober-irishman@reddit
Try qBittorrent with search plugins, works super well
FrigginRan@reddit
real. so many people just default to utorrent which is straight slop these days
Jaspersong@reddit
has been slop from the beginning tbf
Trigger_Fox@reddit
Not slop. Straight up a virus
bitchnibba47@reddit
qBittorrent not forcing you to download a new version every time you close your eyes Challenge: Impossible
a-sober-irishman@reddit
Hasn’t prompted me at all so far 🤷
Reptilesblade@reddit
Been using it for over a decade now. So much less BS compared to other clients.
HotPumpkinPies@reddit
qBittorrent, and I use WatchSoMuch to source the magnets or torrent files. Most reliable site, and it basically is an imdb database of stuff they dont even list there.
M0therFragger@reddit
Wdym it sucks? Literally the easiest thing. Click magnet link, set destination, OK, done.
airfryerfuntime@reddit
I use stremio with real debrid. It's like 3 euros a month. It's encrypted, and everything is cached, so it's super fast.
-IoI-@reddit
Stremio has finally given me a set and forget solution I can distribute to the family, but getting sick of fielding questions on missing/incorrect audio tracks. Getting close to revisiting Plex so I can curate it once more.
airfryerfuntime@reddit
What addon are you using? I have Torrentio and AIO, and neither one has really given me an issue with audio tracks.
-IoI-@reddit
Yeah AIO still giving us issues, TV seems to be more fiddly than films
Sec_Chief_Blanchard@reddit
Hard to do when you're trying to get something that isn't popular
ehnemehnemuh@reddit
Sec_Chief_Blanchard@reddit
i don't know what berserk is and i wasn't talking about any specific show
ehnemehnemuh@reddit
Berserk is one of the most popular manga/anime of all time.
But even then, in my experience you can find plenty of obscure shows
oyMarcel@reddit
Don't use The Pirate Bay, it's the best way to get malware
ehnemehnemuh@reddit
What’s the better alternatives?
BadgerMolester@reddit
I just stream, check out fmhy.net for good sites. You need an adblocker or you'll get pop ups tho.
CoyeK@reddit
that requires someone else to own that media and to share it, i've been unable to find plenty of media i've looked for on torrent sites just because it's old and no one cares about it
ehnemehnemuh@reddit
Yeah, of course you can find everything. But Berserk you can find
FireDevil11@reddit
DO NOT torrent from piratebay. The original has been down for a really long time, and all others are copycats with close to 0 moderation for malware.
P.S. Do not use uTorrent either. Use Qbittorent.
StripEnchantment@reddit
There is no reason to even torrent it, there are so many anime streaming sites that let you watch for free. Just use an adblocker so you don't get popups
CerifiedHuman0001@reddit
Not all the copycats are unmoderated, you just have to go looking for them
C_umputer@reddit
Pretty sure it's on almost every pirate streaming site.
HotPumpkinPies@reddit
Or my new favorite is when some other nerd on reddit has already catalogued the entire run and special features of a show and made a nice google drive folder for everyone.
Dont remember names but shout-out to the guy who put together every season and special of every Top Gear spanning 40 years.
mynameajeff69@reddit
pirate bay? are you stupid? there are many better sites now and pb is a pile of trash
BemusedBengal@reddit
Be careful about torrenting cartoons, even from 15+ years ago. Most of them are owned by Viacom and they still go after seeders.
MindGoblin@reddit
I watched Berserk 97 on Netflix recently
TomatoSpecialist6879@reddit
...so your definition of lost media is things not available on Youtube? You even got the name and year wrong, is this ragebait?
Brokedownbad@reddit
I quoted the date off the top of my head, sue me. And yeah I found it, because it's one of the most popular anime of all time. How many series and one-offs are just gone because nobody thought to archive them? How many thousands of hours of shows and movies exist only as forgotten DVD box sets sitting in attics or dumps?
ur_moms_boy-toy@reddit
Quite a few, but likely none you've heard of or care about. If nobody ever cared to make copy, it's either so old that everyone who enjoyed it was dead long before the internet came about (i.e., it was lost to time), or it was so unpopular in its day that only a couple of copies actually exist, and it's impossible to find them.
If I make a $50 budget film with my phone camera, burn it to DVD, and sell it to a random homeless person, that might become lost media, but media that has been advertised and commercially released is not lost.
TomatoSpecialist6879@reddit
Yeah don't go on a tangent and change topic. I'm not the one who picked one of the most readily available titles online then talk like it's a lost media just because you can't figure out how to find anything outside of Youtube. Someone already made a website to try and document list of lost media since the 2012, which combined all the older projects from 2000s and 1990s. Idk why you're talking like it's some obscure knowledge lmao.
BemusedBengal@reddit
The OP never should have challenged you to a debate. Wait, they didn't? I think you might be taking Reddit comments too seriously.
Wreckn@reddit
Movies and shows that got a DVD release typically are not lost media. Lost media tends to happen with videos taken down off sites like YouTube or unpopular VHS/Betamax releases of media.
Yoyo7689@reddit
r/lostmedia and the LostMediaWiki users would despise you for pointing out they’re just terribly inept pirates and that the content they’re searching for is, indeed, not lost by any definition.
TomatoSpecialist6879@reddit
Are you illiterate or ragebaiting? I'm referring to him using Berserk as an example of lost media when it's clearly not.
Yoyo7689@reddit
Says the illiterate cocksucker who can’t even decipher that I’m agreeing with their point. You and 20 other dipshits…
Yoyo7689@reddit
LMAO, I’m agreeing with you, dipshit. Learn to read.
ur_moms_boy-toy@reddit
I would say the hierarchy of how 'lost' media is goes something like this:
You can still legitimately purchase it in its original form or better. (This is most media, like your example, and even much older examples.)
You can find it on YouTube or other legit sites in good quality.
You can find it on YouTube or other legit sites in bad quality or on 'normal' torrent sites in good quality. (This or higher is where 99% of even somewhat well-known media is.)
You can find it on Russian torrent sites or sussy sites like TPB.
You can find it in 'random' places that are still publicly accessible like open directories.
You can't find it at all unless you know someone who has a copy, or know how to access a copy (e.g. have a link and password) that isn't publicly accessible. (This is what one might consider lost media for practical purposes.)
You can't find it no matter what, because all remaining copies of this piece of media have been lost or destroyed. (This is truly lost media, and media in this tier is bound to be obscure.)
As others have pointed out, Berserk is a bizarre example because you can watch it everywhere. You can even buy physical BluRay discs on Amazon. If you're not willing to pay, YouTube is generally not a good bet, and you'll have to go to tier 3.
Bruvernment@reddit
Its on 9anime
Reptilesblade@reddit
I'll second this. Do you have any idea what I had to go through just to fucking find Today's Special, a live action show I loved as a kid? I finally got a torrent of it a couple of months ago and it's just old VHS rips. I've been looking for it ever since torrents became a thing and I have been sailing the high seas since the days of Napster. I'm talking decades of looking for this show that was popular at the time and had 7 seasons. And I just found it in February.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today%27s_Special
Brokedownbad@reddit
THIS IS THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE
THE FACT IT WAS BERSERK WAS JUST BECAUSE THAT WAS MY EXPERIENCE WITH IT.
Megarboh@reddit
skill issue
AnimeProfilePic@reddit
berserk is literally everywhere lol
Evignity@reddit
anon's will complain that people complain about lost media, but will feelsman.jpg when you point out that we only exist for as long as anyone remember us and the last time anyone ever mentions our name with the context to who we were is our final death.
If all you have is a memory of a thing, it dies with you. If it remains in this world, you will be reflected and represented by it when you die. We all want to be immortal in some way, we all want a piece of us to remain in this world and to have mattered, be it children, our work, our deeds, our lessons. Knowing that media you partook in will, maybe, one day be seen by someone like you and matter to them, matters to us all.
Shadow_Edgehog27@reddit
I think they just released a blu ray of the 90s anime
FMC_Speed@reddit
Shame because it’s the best berserk content IMO, for me I just ripped it from a torrent site
nitonitonii@reddit
Part of the gun is actually finding that old niche cartoon cancelled after 1 season.
Like when I found Bump in the Night, just with the sole memory of the name "Bumpy" and the fact that it was clay, now it's easier with AI tho.
or the old Droidworks game.
Ok_Independence_2630@reddit
I recently found the collector's edition of initial d dubbed in english so maybe not all hope is lost
Bigmiga@reddit
Berserk is available everywhere at 1080p, just took me 3 seconds to find it on a known anime site and on stremio.
GuyNamedWhatever@reddit
It is wild that some place like crunchyroll hasn’t bought the rights for that… but YouTube is free so whatever
McGofer@reddit
Berserk 1997 is literally available right now on netflix
Blitzkriegbaby@reddit
Kisscartoon is always there. Has almost every animated show.
FireDevil11@reddit
Current kisscartoon is just a copycat and I assume a malware infested site after the original kissanime, kissmanga, kisscartoon got taken down, iirc only the kisscomics remained up and then rebranded.
LoinStrangler@reddit
How does one get malware from a site in the year 2026?
Neomataza@reddit
By not having adblocker
LoinStrangler@reddit
Even without adblocker, they can't run malware code on your browser alone, you need to download stuff and be a dumbass to do that.
woodzopwns@reddit
Malvertising is very real
SilliusS0ddus@reddit
invasive pop ups and hidden "buttons" could get you to download shit
Anabiter@reddit
People still using Kisscartoon and 9anime/Aniwave despite them both being destroyed is funny
Substantial_Town4947@reddit
They don't seem to care using copycats of official dead sites.
Floop_The_Pig@reddit
Wcostream is my go to.
outer_spec@reddit
Make sure you use adblock when you watch it. When I try watching it on mobile it redirects me to some weird scam website every other time i click on a button.
Floop_The_Pig@reddit
I forget which one I'm on now but I do use an add blocker.
Danger_Lab_NNN@reddit
Does this site still work without login?
Floop_The_Pig@reddit
Yes but you can't do playlists anymore. You used to be able to watch episodes back to back without manually clicking through them. The playlist and movies are now behind a login.
Danger_Lab_NNN@reddit
Ah, it was a movie. I remember not being able to watch something last time I tried. Most likely a movie. Appreciate the responseÂ
Kitty573@reddit
I've been using anime kai. Idk about playlists but it does autoplay and has intro/outro skips. Also has subtitles for dubs which most places don't seem to. I think they're voice to text though instead of genuine subtitles. Was watching Made in Abyss yesterday and I swear it gave Reg a different name every time it was said XD
Danger_Lab_NNN@reddit
Yea I've switched to anime Kai too. Probably one of the best sites I've found for streaming. I've been seeing voice to text subs now. It really butchers names lol
dicericevice@reddit
They are so quick to upload everything which made it extra funny when the newest episoded of One Punch Man took days to show up.
I wanted to see at least one after all the talk of it being the worse thing ever released and it sucked so hard that the site that uploaded the ''The Red Power Ranger gets iseakied'' minutes after being released on Cruncyroll couldn't be arsed to do it.
gjb94@reddit
Yeah cartoons are the easiest ones, type in watch cartoons/anime online and there are a thousand clones of these sites
Bigiron966@reddit
r/piracy just doing fuck all in the corner I guess
BannedSvenhoek86@reddit
If it doesn't have an app you can download in the app store anyone under 25 knows fuck all about what to do. Kids now don't even know how to use a mouse and keyboard.
JustifiedCroissant@reddit
Grew up with a piracy oriented father, had any game i wanted on the wii, ds and computer, as well as any movie burned no a dvd. Learned how to do it myself watching him. Born in 2003. I'm sure a lot of people my age had the same experience
BannedSvenhoek86@reddit
A lot less than you think. You're an edge case and far from the norm. Granted most fall in between the extremes, but people in your generation by and large only know how to interact with tech through apps. It's a growing problem in schools.
JoshAnMeisce@reddit
I think it's mostly a later Gen z problem tbh, I'm also 2003 and have a lot of friends between 02-05 and we're all pretty technologically literale, but you go down a few more years and you get people who are just like "oh it's not on Netflix? I'm not watching it" or my biggest pet peeve calling Usb-C "the new iPhone charger"
Statharas@reddit
Some German (I think) Cartoon I saw in 1999 when I was 5 in Germany.
It was with some cats that suddenly turned into skeletons and scared the shit out of me
myroosterprettyfunny@reddit
Nein das passiert hier einfach manchmal.
Statharas@reddit
I'm not German >.>
I just happened to watch it
Loathe_the_Hive@reddit
Anon does a psyop to learn the best places to watch old cartoons online.
This is exactly how you use Reddit.Â
artmoloch777@reddit
The Halloween Tree for me
RodjaJP@reddit
My trying to look for the dubbed version of a 70s show and all I can find is a list of Megaupload links
GraceGal55@reddit
Kappa Mikey
greystar07@reddit
https://youtu.be/osUu2Pntr6I?si=CVH3b_XQNmHfItbw
Season 1 mega marathon.
GraceGal55@reddit
🎵 DONT YOU SEE THE MAN ITS KAPPA MIKEYYYY 🎵
greystar07@reddit
HEY (hey) LOOK (look) OUT IN THE STREETS
Goated theme song fr
greystar07@reddit
I’m pretty sure that’s always been available, I watched it, at the most like 7 years ago, out of sheer boredom on YouTube.
Davethemann@reddit
Yeah, and I do remember it on regular tv for quite some time, and i swear it was on a mainstream streamer until very recently
greystar07@reddit
I actually just looked it up again, the second result was the entire first season in one ten hour video.
KommSweet@reddit
Stellina. I made this post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/s/G5vQRhJM9A
Turkish and Italian dubs are found but they're low quality. Other dubs are completely missing tho, even the English one. I've been searching this for a long time.
SipoteQuixote@reddit
Tubi has quite of bit of the old classics. Including cartoon cartoon era cartoon network
CerifiedHuman0001@reddit
Tubi is such an unexpectedly good service sometimes.
GamingGems@reddit
Tubi is one of the only streaming sites I would pay for. If they made an ad-free paid tier I’d sign up day one.
SipoteQuixote@reddit
Even their ads arent annoying. Its not the same ad over and over, its spread out and kinda gives it that antenna tv feel to it.
dajoos4kin@reddit
I'm pretty sure it's owned by Disney so it does have a bit of reach
Swagcopter0126@reddit
Owned by murdoch’s Fox actually
BaconJacobs@reddit
OG Scoobi Doo gang rise up
stormcomponents@reddit
Centurions can be hard to find and that was based af
Lukababineux@reddit
Me with Cadillac and Dinosaurs
SandLuc083_@reddit
If we're talking about animated films that not even piracy can reach, yes there are some that can fit this.
Shadow_Edgehog27@reddit
Phantom Blood 2007
Abdul-Wahab6@reddit
Anon is yet to discover the wonders of telegram piracy
BandedLutz@reddit
Around 70% to 90% of all films recorded during the silent film era are lost media with no surviving copies known. This includes notable films like Lon Chaney's London After Midnight (1927), Laurel & Hardy's Hats off (1927), Saved from the Titanic (1912, just a month after it sunk), early Alfred Hitchcock silent films like The Mountain Eagle (1926), early Academy Award winning films like The Way of All Flesh (1927) and The Patriot (1928), etc.
A bunch of important early film that aren't entirely lost are incomplete. Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) is still missing 5% of it. Cleopatra (1917) only has some surviving fragments. The uncut version of Freaks (1932) would be incredible.
Spoon_Elemental@reddit
All the lost episodes of Doctor Who, if only for their cultural relevance.
Greatgg@reddit
Those are really lost media, because not only they are not available to the general public, they arw also not available to the current right owner and to the original broadcaster. Many "lost media" instead are still somewhere in the archives of the networks that aired them, but they just haven't interest in distributing them anymoreÂ
Alex_Sobol@reddit
Japanese movies from 80s.
Iceklimber@reddit
Rhythm Dimension by Yoko Hikasa in high Quality is the one that got away from me.
Searched far and wide almost for a year to no avail.
> Released in 2008 as digital-only next to a CD of the same song from a different Vocalist (Sana K.).
> Only was briefly available in high quality Wav on viBirth download, a now defunct website as all other websites that used to sell it.
> Never available in stores, only ghost listings from how it used to be sold. Never available on Seven Seas (even passed Interview for private tracker Sites just to look).
THEzwerver@reddit
there's a difference between "not immediately available to watch for free" and "never available again".
chucklenuts-gaming@reddit
The epstein files
Sweet__Sauce@reddit
Why do people want to find "Lol Superman"?
https://i.redd.it/w7zqadwa0vug1.gif
danieldoria15@reddit
Morbid Curiosity as well as the fact that it's tied to one of the most infamous moments in American History.
ItsMichaelRay@reddit
Two lost episodes of Doctor Who were found recently. I think that’s worth caring about.
womerah@reddit
I enjoyed Aquila (on UK kids TV) as a kid. Hard to find that in full these days
ponzidreamer@reddit
Shivers. I got shivers
-BluBone-@reddit
Hard to say, since lost media is lost and few people know it.
MJBotte1@reddit
great caption, poor discussion. Of course media is worth preserving!
WantonKerfuffle@reddit
Had to install a driver for a webcam recently. Cam was from 2001, driver from 2006. Windows didn't know it, but apparently you couldn't find it on the internet. Even resorted to sketchy driver helper software, which could at least name it correctly, but installation was paywalled.
Got it off the original driver disk out of sheer spite and wrote a long but precise manual for the person buying it. They were amazed I was able tp figure out the process.
soiboi64@reddit
Where's Waldo animated tv show, that's obscureÂ
joemofo214@reddit
There's this old mexican narco movies from the late 80's/early 90s that had a torture scene of someone's teeth being drilled out. Watched it when I was like 7 on Univision. I hadn't been able to find that movie.
ZZTMF@reddit
Root_Veggie@reddit
I’m mad that I can’t watch the english dub of Riki-Oh anywhere
0xE4-0x20-0xE6@reddit
Love the meme potential for that pic
FJkookser00@reddit
It's personal, really, lost media in this sense is more about how much it meant to you individually. The objectivity is the general sense of these media pieces overall being discarded, regardless if they hold weight en masse or not.
Nobody cares about ThunderCats, but I was hyped when I found the intro on YouTube one day.
Gardeeboo@reddit
This is why I insisted on owning all of Teen Titans and Hey Arnold physically because I rewatch them so frequently. Lo and behold, neither are ever available on any of the streaming services the family is subscribed to.
Skreamie@reddit
Yarrr
JustChillin3456@reddit
The OG toonomi commercial breaks
toewalldog@reddit
Toon Heads from Cartoon Network. History, old cartoons, a great DVD style narration. I loved it. Apparently though, much of it is considered "lost media."
Rice_Stain@reddit
Me when I had to go through the rabbit hole to find Monkey Magic on the internet
TrueGootsBerzook@reddit